BSTR variable

[vc _fragrance]

Hi Can you please tell me...what is the wrong in the following code snippet . BSTR abc; abc is having some data in it. Now I need to check whether abc is having empty string. for that I wrote the code like this if( abc ==L"") AfxMessageBox("empty string"); But I receive a compilation error ; Please help me to ressolve the issue. Thanks in advance.

[Lost User]

Use SysStringLen[^] for BSTR BSTR is not a class. If you wish to use == for comparing two BSTRs then use _bstr_t class which wraps BSTR data type

Sohail

[CPallini]

you may use

if ( wcscmp(abc,L"") == 0)
AfxMessageBox("empty string");

or, if you want to use the equality operator, choose to encapsulate the BSTR data inside a _bstr_t object. :)

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